It was learned from the opening ceremony of the 2023 World Robot Conference that the operating income of China’s robot industry in 2022 exceeded 170 billion yuan, continuing to maintain double-digit growth. The application of robot market is accelerating, and the installed capacity of industrial robots will account for more than 50% of the world’s total in 2022, ranking the world’s largest market. In the next step, the relevant departments will further promote the “robot +” application action, strengthen the landing application of the subdivision field, and accelerate the popularization and promotion of mature scenes.

In recent years, under the guidance of manufacturing power and digital China construction, China’s robot industry has achieved vigorous development. Xin Guobin, vice minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, introduced at the meeting that the output of industrial robots in 2022 exceeded 443,000 sets, an increase of more than 20%.

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While the industrial scale continues to grow, the brand strength of the robot industry continues to increase, and the market application is accelerating. Xin Guobin introduced that the number of specialized new “little giant” enterprises in the field of robotics reached 273, and 10 robot enterprises grew into a single champion in the manufacturing industry. The density of robots in the manufacturing industry has reached 392 units per 10,000 workers, and service and special robots not only achieve large-scale applications in logistics, medical care, construction and other fields, but also play an important role in space exploration, emergency rescue, and public safety.

Participants believe that the current robot shows man-machine integration, virtual-real integration, intelligent drive, ubiquitous interaction and other development characteristics, and the industry contains huge investment opportunities and surging development momentum. China has the world’s largest robot market, we should seize the strategic opportunities of industrial development, build an open, sharing and cooperation ecosystem, and vigorously promote the high-quality development of the robot industry.

Xin Guobin said that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will adhere to the application traction, further promote the “robot +” application action, strengthen the application of subdivided areas, accelerate the popularization and promotion of mature scenes, encourage the first exploration of emerging areas, and promote the continuous penetration of robot innovative products into various industries and fields of the national economy. Adhere to innovation-driven, establish a collaborative innovation mechanism between user units and robot enterprises, face the application needs of the industry, and drive a number of high-end machines, key components and process software innovation breakthroughs. Adhere to integrated development, stimulate the innovation vitality of enterprises, strengthen central and local collaboration, and jointly cultivate world-class robot industrial clusters and application demonstration bases.